Interviewed by CNN on 29/01/2013 10:47, Daniel told the world: > Rob wrote: >> Ray_Net <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 2. A firefox guy is complaining about lag when accessing web pages .. >>> could this feature slow firefox. >> >> This is not very likely. The feature works by downloading a list >> of infected sites at a certain interval, then storing this list >> in a local file. The file is then consulted during browsing. >> >> So there is no extra query to a single server that has to reply before >> a page is shown, like in some competing system. > > Hey, Rob, in your first para, you say that a list is downloaded, so in > your second para, you *must be wrong* when you state there is "no extra > query to a single server that has to reply". > > Of course, this extra wait time will depend on how often SM has to > download the list of infected sites, daily, weekly, whatever.
No, you missed the rest of the sentence: "...that has to reply before a page is shown." What Rob meant is that Firefox won't stop loading the page you want to visit while checking a particular server to see if that page is clean. Instead, it has a previously-downloaded blacklist of problem sites. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my BBC Micro. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.15 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
